Last spring I found myself in rural Alabama, sitting between an investigative journalist and a candid salesman I’ll call Sid, who was hawking used and potentially contaminated former FEMA trailers to those displaced by a series of tornados. These trailers had originally been issued by the federal government after Hurricane Katrina and were found to contain elevated levels of formaldehyde…

This entry is a follow up to Sadeq Rahimi’s posting of Byron Good’s Marett lecture—originally presented on 30 April 2010 in Oxford, UK. The morning following this address a fellow doctoral student, Nadine Levin, a Filmmaker, Robert Rapoport and I sat down with Professor Good to record a series of contextualizing …